Frances
Madden; Australia’s rising jazz star and a classy classy lady ….. so says Music Love …....... Here’s the full article
which includes my black and white photo taken of her at Gospel Pianos in Ryde, and the 2016 Archibald Painting entry, that resulted from it.

Sunday, 2 April 2017

I really enjoyed working with DJ Johnny Lewis and Station
Manager Peter Moore from THE Radio Caroline, for a unique April Fool’s Day
program … The film The Boat That Rocked was the inspiration for an April Fool’s
day joke, that surprised thousands of listeners across the FM airwaves, on
Saturday.

Radio Caroline is the actual pirate radio station that the
film The Boat That Rocked, was about. The ship DID go down, just like in the
film that starred Bill Nighy, January Jones, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emma
Thompson; however, management purchased more large ships, and have continued to
broadcast to today!

Well, the Boat That Rocked premiered 8 years ago on April
Fools Day.

And so, together with a collection of SFX including a creaking
boat, footsteps on shipping metal decks, and seagulls; a complete program was
engineered as being “broadcast” from the Northern Seas, instead of the Chandos
St, St Leonards studios of Fine Music.

The sting was revealed in the last few minutes to the
listening audience, with myself introducing Johnny, and both of us concluding
“hope you’ve enjoyed our joke”, and finishing with a tongue in check track,
“Fun Out Of Life”, sung by Madeline Peyroux.

This week’s discovery is the amazing Mr Joan Chamorro; a sax player,
teacher and mentor … he’s brought to prominence talented youngsters such as
Andrea Motis and Eva Fernandez, and regularly does the jazz circuit with his students
under the banner of the Saint Andrew Band